Margarita Alicea-Saez

Margarita is Manager of Operations for Academic Technology, the Library, and Online Learning. She provides ongoing operational and budgetary support, as well as project management expertise for the various initiatives at the ATC, library, and in Bentley’s hybrid online learning programs. She works extensively in managing vendor relationships as well as with staff from a variety of Bentley’s administrative departments, including Purchasing, the Budget Office, System, Networks, and Telecommunications, Client Services, and Facilities.

Margarita has more than 25 years of administrative experience in higher education, non-profit, and corporate settings. Prior to joining Bentley in 2009, she worked at Northeastern University and Framingham State University. She is an Alumni from the Leadership Metrowest Academy. She holds an M.Ed. from Cambridge College, and is fluent in Spanish.

Laura Ford

Laura holds the position of Technical Coordinator. She is responsible for the day-to-day administrative operations of the ATC, provides support to the web development group, and assists faculty and other ATC staff with a variety of programming, instructional technology, and multimedia projects. Laura also serves a triage function, directing faculty who call the ATC to discuss project ideas, academic software questions, etc. to the appropriate staff member. She oversees the ATC’s software database that includes licensing and renewal information on applications used in Bentley’s academic technology facilities as well as those residing on the university’s central applications server (“Virtual Lab”).Laura joined Bentley in 1999, and served as Program Assistant for the Center for Executive and Professional Education prior to joining the ATC. In this role, she developed and maintained an Access database, provided administrative and technical support for Blackboard and videoconferencing, and supported the use of Perseus web surveys. She holds an HTML certificate, has taken certification courses in relational databases/MS Access, web management, and e-commerce, and is proficient with Blackboard, SQL, and SABA.

Ruth Horwitz

Ruth serves as Manager of Online Programs. Her responsibilities include integrating distance technologies into the curriculum, such as videoconferencing and web conferencing programs including Saba Virtual Classrooms, GoToMeeting/Training, and Adobe Connect. She also assists faculty in designing multi-media programs (incorporating graphics, audio and video). Ruth develops and delivers training and workshops for faculty on the integration of video and distance learning technologies in instruction.

Ruth has been at Bentley for twenty years. Prior to joining the ATC, she was a Video Producer in the Media Services department.

Ruth has served as Adjunct Faculty here at Bentley as part of the Business Communications Program, and has produced programs for non-profit organizations including the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, International Institute of Boston, and the Nat. l Heritage Museum, on a freelance basis. She holds a BA in Religious Studies and History, from Penn State University, Secondary Education Teaching Certification from Keene State College and a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from BU.

Fred Monshi

Fred holds the position of Senior Instructional & Research Infrastructure Manager. He is responsible for researching and supporting new server-based software, including virtualization and cloud technologies as well as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) tools to support faculty and student (undergraduate and graduate, on-campus as well as online) access to academic resources. He dedicates much of his time to designing the architecture for and managing the technical infrastructure of Bentley’s state-of-the-art Trading Room, including its servers, data feeds, data walls, tickers, and PCs. He also supports the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) system, Ariel, the library’s online/touchscreen collaborative study room systems (Resource Scheduler, RoomWizard), the 3M RFID library security and patron counter gates, high-resolution/high speed scanners, and SAP use in the curriculum.

Fred has a BS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Prior to coming to Bentley, he worked for U Mass, Lowell in a variety of positions including Computer Laboratory Coordinator, Manager of Videoconferencing, and Project Supervisor. Fred also spent three years working in the technical support division of NPC Computer Corporation.

Joe Nezuh

Joe holds the position of Academic & Research Technologist, helping identify, evaluate, and effectively utilize applications used for research and/or curricular purposes. He supports faculty use of both basic and advanced features of Blackboard, manages innovative projects, and teaches a variety of faculty workshops. He is also responsible for maintaining applications on our virtual lab (VLAB).
Prior to joining the ATC in 2005, Joe served as a faculty member at several Boston-area higher education institutions, including Northeastern and Bentley (where he continues to teach in the CIS department). He has taught technical/programming courses in Java, Perl, C++, Systems Analysis and Design, and Software Architecture. Joe has been a consultant to an array of high-tech companies, and has an extensive background with databases, languages, and software tools. He holds a BA in Finance from UMass, and an MBA from Bentley.

Dr. Tamara Rabinovich

Dr. Rabinovich is a Senior Consultant for Research & Learning Technologies. She researches and analyzes emerging and cutting edge technologies in business and educational fields. She performs outreach to faculty wishing to integrate technology into curriculum and research, consults faculty on effective integration of various technologies, and helps Bentley faculty to adapt learning technologies such as Microsoft Conference XP, Saba-Centra, and Turnitin.com. She also acts as a liaison for faculty teaching in Hybrid synchronous Web-extended classes delivered live via Saba-Centra Web collaboration software. Dr. Rabinovich brings more than seven years of university teaching experience in Computer Science and Technology.

She holds a BA in Computer Science from Haifa University, Israel and an MS in Education of Technology and Science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She recently earned her Doctorate in the Educational Media and Technology program at Boston University’s School of Education, where her research focused on distance learning.

Steve Salina

Steve holds the position of Manager of Instructional and Research Video Technologies. He helps faculty produce professional-quality video segments used in instruction, and assists them in capturing and editing video for qualitative research projects. He is facile with a variety of modern technology tools, including tape-based video, streamed audio/video on the web (e.g., RealAudio / RealVideo), or digital audio/video that can be incorporated into PowerPoint or multimedia applications.

Steve has been at Bentley since 1989, first in the Media Services department, in the positions of Video Production Technician, Assistant Video Producer, and Manager of Video Production. He joined the ATC in 1999. Steve holds a BS in Business Communications from Bentley. He has worked as a freelance producer / videographer / editor on projects for several companies and institutions, among them EDS, Ziff-Davis, New England Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Mary Jo Sanz

Mary Jo is the Senior Instructional Designer for Online Programs. She collaborates with faculty on all aspects of curriculum design and content development for their online courses, focusing on effective use of technology to enhance learning. She serves as a consulting and training resource on instructional design and learning theory. She works directly with faculty to identify course learning objectives and evaluates the most appropriate asynchronous or synchronous approaches and web-based tools to meet those objectives.Mary Jo has worked as an instructional designer at Northeastern University and University of Phoenix Online and as a course developer, trainer, and independent consultant in the speech-recognition software industry. She holds a Master of Education in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University. She teaches education courses on adult learning theory and curriculum development. She is fluent in Spanish and conversant in German.

Gaurav Shah

Gaurav Shah is the Director of Academic Technologies overseeing the Academic Technology Center (ATC), Classroom Presentation Technologies (CPT) and Online Programs. He is responsible for researching, evaluating and facilitating innovative applications of technology, concentrating on curricular innovation, research, pedagogy, and related institutional priorities for faculty and students. He is also responsible for managing a staff of 15 professionals, including Instructional Designers, Courseware Developers, Academic Technologists, Web Programmers, Research Consultants and Media and Online Learning specialists.Prior to being promoted to this role, he served as the Senior Web Projects Manager at the ATC. He was responsible for assisting faculty in all aspects of courseware development and in the selection and integration of appropriate instructional and research technologies. He also assisted with the ongoing planning, development, and implementation of institution-wide information architecture to support academic technology initiatives.

Prior to coming to the ATC, Gaurav worked as the Manager of the Center for Marketing Technology (CMT) at Bentley. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the CMT, which included managing current technologies and software applications installed at the CMT. He was also responsible for developing and designing programs for Bentley students and faculty, researching new marketing and other related technologies, and integrating them in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programs.

Gaurav received his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Bombay, India, his MBA in Management Information Systems from Bentley, and his MS in Human Factors and Information Design from Bentley and is fluent in Gujarati and Hindi.

Dr. Maria Skaletsky

Maria holds the position of Senior Research Consultant. She is responsible for preparing and managing data and assisting faculty on research design, survey design, data gathering methodology, data input, and data analysis. She also supports faculty use of large research databases, such as CRSP, Compustat, and ExecuComp, as well as their use of SAS, SPSS, and other statistical software.Maria joined the ATC in April of 2003. Prior to joining the ATC, she earned an MBA (concentration in Business Data Analysis) from Bentley University. In the course of her studies at Bentley, she used a variety of statistical methods, including linear regression, logistic regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, ANOVA, time series, etc. Maria holds a BS in Business Management from St. Petersburg Academy of Business (Russia), and is fluent in Russian.

Jason Wells

Jason serves as Senior Instructional and Research Technology Manager. He is responsible for researching, testing, and supporting new instructional technologies (e.g. Blackboard and Saba), Bentley’s High Performance Computing efforts, and projects that require sensors and antennas. He also acts as a senior member of the Bentley community, assisting with Change Control, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning, Policy Review, Security, Sustainability, and long term IT planning efforts.

Jason holds a BS in Computer Information Sciences from Bentley, and has an MA in Diplomacy from Norwich University, which focused on International Commerce Management. While still taking classes at Bentley he started in the ATC in 1997 as a part-time web developer, soon became an HTML Projects Manager, and was hired full-time in 1999. He is an XSEDE Campus Champion (ask him about it!) and ACI-REF-VR.

Jonathan Whittinghill

Jonathan holds the position of Research Consultant. He is responsible for providing research consultation services for faculty on all aspects of empirical research, including study design, instrument development and data collection, management and cleaning of large datasets, summative and predictive analyses and interpretation. This includes investigating alternative sources of data and software to satisfy faculty research goals. He is proficient in Stata, SPSS, and R for statistical analysis and data management.

Jonathan joined the ATC in 2017 having previously worked as a research statistician at Harvard Law School, and has a background in program evaluation and education research. He is experienced in the general linear model, factor analysis and structural equation modeling, psychometric techniques including reliability analysis and item response theory, and social network analysis. He has a BA in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a MA in Education Research from the California State University Los Angeles.